Work gets underway on Russian pipeline
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CHINA and Russia are starting construction of a joint natural gas pipeline in Russia’s eastern Siberia, implementing a natural gas supply contract signed between the two countries.
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli flew from Moscow to Yakutsk, capital of Russia’s Sakha Republic, last night to attend a ceremony for the Russian part of the east route of the China-Russia natural gas pipeline.
Zhang’s attendance at the start-of-construction ceremony reflects the importance the Chinese government attaches to the comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia and its will to expand bilateral cooperation to wider fields and higher levels.
Pipe-welding will begin today in the Russian part of the east route of the pipeline — the “Siberia Power” pipeline.
According to a contract witnessed by President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Shanghai meeting in May, the pipeline will transmit 38 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year to China over a period of 30 years from 2018.
The Russian stakeholder of the pipeline, Gazprom, estimates that total investment in the project could exceed US$5 billion.
Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s chairman, said the gas supply contract was a good beginning to bilateral cooperation in the field of natural gas.
He said the Russian side is working on implementing the consensus reached by Putin and Xi and would “undoubtedly” build the planned west route of the natural gas pipeline and export gas to China through it.
The start of construction of the east route of the pipeline signifies a major step forward in implementing the consensus reached by Xi and Putin, he said.
The Russian part of the pipeline will link the Kovyktin and Chayandin gas fields in Siberia with the eastern port city of Vladivostok, covering a total distance of nearly 4,000 kilometers.
Zhang said the breakthrough on the natural gas project and other large-scale projects helped drive the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership into a new era of development.
Zhang was in Moscow to co-chair the 11th meeting of the China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee.
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